I didn’t know what I wanted to do for a long time. Once we graduated middle school I went right into working and stuff, but it was vague and more outta necessity than passion. There weren’t a lot of places that gave good wages for 15-year-old kids with no home or high school diploma, so the only option was to work an assload of smaller jobs. And that’s... For a real long time, that’s all I did. Put away money here and there where it was realistic and maybe have a house one day. It seemed so far-off and impossible at the time, though. After a while everything just felt... pointless. Like living on auto-pilot or somethin’.
Think I was around 16 when there happened to be that sale down a neighborhood I was babysitting in. The second I saw the cart in their yard, I knew exactly what I wanted outta life, and damned if I wouldn’t get it. And, well. The years working for that were rigorous as hell, but they had drive behind them. I don’t regret a second of it.